Dream Collection: Five Soulful Approaches To Dreams

Course Description

Join Michael Conforti, Stephen Aizenstat, David Cumes, Machiel Klerk and Robert Waggoner as they explore the different approaches we can take to work with our dreams. The world of Dream holds the potential for greater guidance, healing and increased creativity, and after listening to these five lectures you will have a clearer understanding how to start with or even deepen your dreamwork practices.

Working with our dreams can be a vitally important tool to navigate the journey of life. And in this collection, each Teacher presents different approaches as well as methods on how to be with and tap into the wisdom of dreams for our psychological and spiritual growth.

With this Collection you will learn more about Jung’s approach to dreams, tending to living images, ancestral guidance in dreams, how to revisit dreams, and how to become more lucid in dreams.

This course is ideal if

• Dreams, the mystery of dreaming and learning more about working with your dreams
• Learning how to amplify dream images and finding the archetypal meaning of dream symbols
• Exploring different indigenous cultures’ views on dreams, healing and ancestors; and understanding how you could apply some of those principles to your own life
• Exploring lucid dreaming as a practical tool for growth, or learning how to become lucid in your dreams.

Course Overview

The Dream Collection includes the following lectures:

Dreams, Jung & M.L. Von Franz, Michael Conforti
Jungian analyst Michael Conforti presents the work of the early masters in the Jungian field. Jungian psychology was the first to examine dreams, the personal and collective unconscious and our rich unconscious life using story, myth and active imagination to illuminate the workings of the unconscious elements of our psyche.

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Tending the Living Image, Stephen Aizenstat
Awaken to the healing power of your dreams through Dream Tending. This dreamwork method, developed by Stephen Aizensat, helps you to access the potential of your dreams. He will help you to engage your unique genius, express your creativity, and contribute to the world around you through a new and dynamic perspective.

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An Indigenous Approach Towards Dreams, David Cumes
The South African Sangoma and medical doctor, David Cumes, shares a South African shamanic world view to dreams. In this worldview there is an ‘Other World’ populated with ancestors and spirit guides who can help or hinder our life path. One way to get in touch with these figures is in our dreams. David gives some suggestions on how to connect and get help from your ancestors through your dreams.

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Rumi and The World of Dream, Machiel Klerk
In Rumi and the World of Dream Machiel Klerk describes the three basic characteristics of dreaming that help us relate to dreams in an experiential and relational way. This lecture will give you a better understanding of what a dream is.

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Lucid Dreaming, Robert Waggoner
Lucid dreaming is the ability to become consciously aware that you are dreaming while you are in the dream state. Robert Waggoner has practised lucid dreaming for more than 30 years. He shares techniques for becoming lucid in dreams and offers some experiments for the dream state which can help you to expand your awareness.